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Table of Contents

Advent Hymn	William Law's influence on Wesley
Misc. History	Wesleys' leave for America
Wesley's cowpen walk	Annunciation
Hymn	Characterization of John Wesley
Sermons Preface	Misc. History 2
John Wesleys' childhood	John Wesley's Covenant
Who am I	Sermon Prefaces 2
Early Voyage to England	Wesley's Parents
Christian Perfection	Wesley's Salvation History
Salvation by Faith Series	More Early Sermons
Wesley's First Sermon Death and Deliverance	Moravian Testimonies
Salvation, Faith and Good Works

Welcome to BOOK OF DAYS OF JOHN WESLEY.

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Section 5
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December 23, 1736
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Savannah, Georgia---Wesley and two friends and a guide set out to walk to the Cowpen. After three hours they came to a creek the guide had forgotten about. "There was no remedy but wading through," John wrote. A couple of hours later they came to a swamp which they decided to walk through (the water was breast-high!).

They walked on, totally lost, until sunset, when they discovered their tinder was wet. That meant they could make no fire. "I was for walking still, but both my companions ... were for lying down."

Wet clothes and wet ground soon encased them in a frozen cocoon of frost, in which John said he slept 'til six the next morning. A heavy dew added a white blanket to their topsides. Wesley wrote in his personal diary, "almost dispirited."

            The Works of John Wesley, 18, 457.
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